He opens it up and inside is the key to proving his worth to enter Valhalla and prove to his village he is indeed a true warrior! With his trusty axe and shield he sets out with his newfound gift without a backwards glance. After puzzling over how the dream could have felt so real he looks down and sees a sack resting on his stomach that hadn’t been there before. These gifts come with a price, of course, but Oddmar accepts the spirit’s terms and wakes up with a daze. Just when all seems lost, he’s visited by a spirit that promises to make him worthy by granting him a special power: mushrooms! And not just any mushrooms, but magical fungus granting him the ability to jump to new heights and to ascend obstacles that would normally bar his way. Our hero realizes he’s unworthy of entering Valhalla, a crushing wake up call to learn that he’s unworthy to join those warriors who came before him. In the dream they stand before the gates of Valhalla and in a blinding light Oddmar watches Vaskr enter before the gates slam close, barring our hapless hero’s entry. One night after being publicly humiliated for his lazy ways, he dreams about an old friend from his childhood, Vaskr, a fellow Viking he hasn’t thought about in years. Oddmar is a Viking whose yet to prove himself in battle, living off scraps of the village instead of heading out to fight. Rather straightforward at first, the game’s eccentric nature and Norse-inspired mythological world kept sucking me back in. It’s also one that controls great using touchscreen controls, an accomplishment all its own. From the creators of Leo’s Fortune, Oddmar is one of the quirkiest platformers I’ve played this year, one that left me equally charmed, bored, and smiling. I don’t normally associate Vikings with mushrooms and flying pigs, but then again life is full of surprises.
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